American - Sociologist | October 19, 1895 - January 26, 1990
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
Lewis Mumford
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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
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Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
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The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
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Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
PeopleBabyBlindPoliticalSurvival
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.
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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
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War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.
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Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.
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